From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76094 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:26 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87oc71rp69.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <8739od3o40.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296230647 11223 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 16:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:04:07 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24446@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 17:04:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Piqno-0003ZM-CY for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:04:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Piqnc-00018s-Nj; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqnY-00018f-U0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:44 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqnV-00067b-4w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:44 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqnU-0006B2-BQ for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:03:40 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqnU-0003N1-AK for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:03:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:03:40 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:03:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T0UanmC35Qw4CzBvCgBCX7DKP5M= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76094 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:47:59 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: LI> Oh, darn. I really like Inconsolata. It's, by far, the most pleasant LI> font I've used in Emacs... I like Inconsolata a lot, but Terminus fits me better. Terminus also doesn't have italics, but has an oblique version at least. The major issues for me are always 0 vs. O (both put a slash through 0 so it looks different) and l vs. 1 (they look very similar in both, which annoys me). Terminus also has better Unicode coverage IIRC, which matters to me. See http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ if you want to see other choices. LI> Can't Emacs auto-slant things to make semi-italics? Googling shows LI> people saying stuff like "slant=1", but I can't get that to work... No, you can't auto-slant a font easily. But when you do, it's apparently called "oblique" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type and http://www.marksimonson.com/article/128/fake-vs-true-italics). There's a horde of typography nerds headed for your house right now with torches and pitchforks, demanding a human sacrifice for daring to ask that question. Ted